Yle-dl fails with Fedora40

[OH1KH]

yle-dl 20240927: Download media files from Yle Areena and Elävä Arkisto Copyright (C) 2009-2024 Antti Ajanki antti.ajanki@iki.fi, license: GPLv3

Output file: 1-71747536.mp3 Unknown option 'show-progress'

That is Fedora's fault because they have replaced wget with wget2 (wget is symlinked to wget2) and wget2 does not support 'show-progress' . That causes many scripts, also others than yle-dl, fail and is most stupid thing Fedora has done for long time.

They should fix their error, but meanwhile: Perhaps yle-dl could check is the wget really original wget and adjust call parameters to be suitable for used version ?

[aajanki]

Do you or anyone else know how to reliably recognize wget vs wget2?

[DarrenPIngram]

Do you or anyone else know how to reliably recognize wget vs wget2?

On mobile and fat fingers nor can check. If you mean check if wget2 exists & then use that, something like (As a script, I can't say in Python but it must be possible)

!/bin/bash

if command -v wget2 &> /dev/null; then echo "Using wget2" wget2 --version else echo "Using wget" wget --version fi

(Struggling to highlight and quote the above)

Then I guess if desired write a preference based on the result if that's needed inside Yle-dl when called?

[OH1KH]

In all cases use "wget". Because Fedora has symlinked wget->wget2 that is the proper way. At program start issue command: wget --version From result look at second word (or a word that has string Wget in it. Maybe better to make result upcase and seek upcase WGET) Depending on result switch the 'show-progress' parameter on (wget), or off (wget2).

Results for "wget --version":

(this is from Fedora39 that is OK) saku@fedora:~$ wget --version
GNU Wget 1.21.4 käännetty linux-gnu-järjestelmällä.

(this is Fedora40 with symlinked wget->wget2) [saku@hamtpad ~]$ wget --version
GNU Wget2 2.1.0 - multithreaded metalink/file/website downloader

I could have done PR but Python is not very familiar and it's tabulation makes me crazy. I prefer { }, or Begin End blocks.